A first-person YouTube storytime by Tim Frey recounting a severe, widespread rash that progressed to head-to-toe numbness and electric jolts down the spine. The health crisis prompted a sudden re-evaluation of priorities—business obligations ceased to matter—and served as the speaker’s wake-up call to change how they live.
One day I woke up with a rash and the rash was really bad. It was all over my body and it was so itchy. I remember we were flying to Sydney for a business event. I laid in the hotel room at night and I remember just covering myself head to toe with like washcloths. The doctor's like, oh, you know, it could be a bit of a stress. And I was like, oh, cool, just give me the cream. I've got to do full body cream. Yeah, yeah, full body. Head to toe. Lathering this cream up right, didn't change anything. About five months later, the rash was replaced with this weird sensation that when I would put my head forward, I would get this like el electric jolt down my spine. We were down south for Tim's birthday. We woke up with head to toe numbness. And I got you to feel my body and I couldn't really feel it. And I got my own hand for my body and it felt this weird sensation. So we're pretty worried. So you made me call the doctor and she confirmed and all of a sudden, business just didn't matter. Just. It just didn't matter. And sometimes you need a wake up call and I hope that no one else gets to the point where they need a wake up call like that, but that was the wake up call I needed to really change the way we do things.
